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Watch: Detroit! Drones! Clichéd comparisons to Chernobyl!

"Who knew that parts of Detroit look like abandoned towns left to rot after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in Pripyat, Ukraine?" asks a writer over at Esquire, who apparently has never seen a photo of Detroit before. The sentiment was echoed by Esquire's social media editor, who wrote "Incredibly, parts of Detroit look like the aftermath of Chernobyl." (Nevermind that the teaser photo they used is not Detroit but the unfinished Satsop Nuclear Power Plant in Washington).

To answer the question posed by Esquire — like, everybody? People have been making Detroit-Chernobyl comparisons before drone footage-mania swept the nation. In fact, Google search guessed we were looking for "detroit looks like chernobyl" before we even finished typing it.